Despite being a lower social status through history, Women in Macbeth are shown to be more powerful than males. It is the women in the story that set off all the unfortunate series of events in the story through their influence. The powerful influence of a woman in Macbeth is shown to be cataclysmic and proves to be the real monster in the story.
The first example of this are the witches. These women are the ones who set off the whole problem that begins the tragedies in the play. Theses women were able to predict the future. Whilst knowing that that their actions will directly contribute to the tragedy of Macbeth’s fate, they still decide to tell him. This sets the story in motion and puts the desire in Macbeth to commit the first murder. These women did not fight like men, they did not even have a major story in the play. All they did was tell Macbeth something and this was enough to trigger the events. Their extreme power came in a couple of words. Their words were enough to corrupt a man’s heart and disrupt the natural order and change the course of history. The whole plot of the story only happened because of the witches, yet they only played a minor role. Just a little part that they played created a disaster. These women held the true powerful influence that ultimately killed many.
Another woman with immense power was Lady Macbeth. She saw an opportunity to become queen and went for it. Knowing that she could corrupt her husband, she exploited his deepest desire for kingship. She saw knew that a man would always fight for his manliness, so she challenged Macbeth’s manliness. Seeing his manliness in question, Macbeth used this manliness and acted upon his desire to become king. While Macbeth consistently feared and hesitated in his actions, Lady Macbeth was always the one to convince him that he should commit the killings in order to get what she wanted. She essentially expanded Macbeth’s desire to become king and set his actions into place. It was she that disrupted the usual order of Macbeth’s character and by proxy, he became a monster and disrupted the kingdom himself.
It was these women’s influences that was the true monster. These influences disrupted the natural order and cause chaos among the whole kingdom. Without these women influencing the men, the events would have never transpired, thus normalcy would have continued.0
